2022 Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Agricultural Mechanization is the 235th most popular major in the country with 1,550 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, ag mechanization graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $44,100 and had an average of $16,882 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 434 ag mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,375 and $15,366 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 42 ag mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in ag mechanization. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent ag mechanization programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the ag mechanization program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree ag mech students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Wisconsin - River Falls

River Falls, Wisconsin

#2 in overall quality

$13,748 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - River Falls. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. This medium-sized school is located in River Falls, Wisconsin, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s ag mech degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - River Falls did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Agricultural Mechanization Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Wisconsin - River Falls is $13,748 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree ag mech students.

The low student loan default rate of 2.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Agricultural Mechanization at University of Wisconsin - River Falls

#2

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$13,986 Average Net Price

$51,794 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Ag Mech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. This large school is located in West Lafayette, Indiana, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s ag mech degrees in 2019-2020.

Purdue also made our “Best Agricultural Mechanization Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Purdue University - Main Campus is $13,986 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree ag mech students.

The low student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Agricultural Mechanization at Purdue

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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